Hello Dan, Thanks for your help. Have used fdisk command, rebooted with Win98. All working great with OO 2.1
Best wishes Alex. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Cc: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:23 PM Subject: Re: [users] [moderated] Using 2.1 with Windows ME > On Monday February 05 2007 3:13 am, Alex wrote: > > Hello Dan, > > > > Thank you for confirming that. The OO installer keeps suggesting > > there is a corruption in the OO download file. But given, that I > > having problems loading other programs onto the computer eg > > Netscape, think there may be a problem in the system files. > > > > Would you happen to know how you can completely wipe clean the hard > > disk and start afresh with the Window's operating system? > > > > Best wishes > > Alex > > If you want to wipe the hard disk clean, you would use fdisk.exe. > However, that is a rather drastic action to take. You could reformat > the hard drive, but that is also drastic. You should consider > something less drastic to begin with, although replacing Win ME might > be a very good idea. It has never been a quality operating system > even by MS standards. > The first thing you need to do is to check to see if the OOo > download file is corrupt or not. To do this, you need to use > md5sum.exe. > Go to the download page (http://download.openoffice.org/2.1.0/) > and click the Download OpenOffice.org button. Along with the list of > operating systems you can choose, there is a small link for md5sum. > Click that link and follow the instructions you are given. If the > md5sum you get is different from the one listed in the link, you do > have a corrupt download file. You would then need to download the > file again. This time check to see if it is OK before trying to > install it. > > Dan > > > On 5 Feb 2007, at 02:12, Dan Lewis wrote: > > > On Friday February 02 2007 3:27 pm, Alex wrote: > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> I am having trouble loading OOv2.1 onto a computer running > > >> Windows ME. Is OOv2.1 compatible with Windows ME? > > >> > > >> Best wishes > > >> Alex Bienfait. > > > > > > You might want to explain your problem or problems more > > > thoroughly. OOo 2.1 will run on Win ME as long as the CPU is at > > > least Pentium class, you have at least 128 MB RAM, and you have > > > at least 200 MB of free disk space on your computer. > > > > > > Can > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > >-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
